RE: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-20 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jon Berndt wrote: When Grand Slam was dropped the fuselage 'jumped' upwards quite radically. What's Grand Slam? The 22,000lb bomb. Tallboy is the 12,000lb one, and upkeep is the bouncing one used on the dams raid. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:43:17 +0100 (BST), Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jon Berndt wrote: When Grand Slam was dropped the fuselage 'jumped' upwards quite radically. What's Grand Slam? The 22,000lb bomb. Tallboy is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 18:15, David Megginson wrote: When we were climbing out from Toronto/City Centre (CYTZ) on Sunday, a WWII Lancaster bomber passed 500 feet above us. I just discovered today that my ten-year-old daughter snapped two pictures of it passing over us, without telephoto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: When we were climbing out from Toronto/City Centre (CYTZ) on Sunday, a WWII Lancaster bomber passed 500 feet above us. I just discovered today that my ten-year-old daughter snapped two pictures of it passing over us, without telephoto (to give an idea of distances):

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Rick Ansell
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:56:46 -0500, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Megginson writes: When we were climbing out from Toronto/City Centre (CYTZ) on Sunday, a WWII Lancaster bomber passed 500 feet above us. I just discovered today that my ten-year-old daughter snapped two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Gene Buckle
And then you hang 22,000lbs of bomb under one and it gets... ...interesting. http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/aerospce/pics/bombs.htm Oh. My. God. I take it one like it got dropped at least once during WWII? g. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Gene Buckle wrote: And then you hang 22,000lbs of bomb under one and it gets... ...interesting. http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/aerospce/pics/bombs.htm Oh. My. God. I take it one like it got dropped at least once during WWII? The first time the Grand Slam bomb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Gene Buckle
And then you hang 22,000lbs of bomb under one and it gets... ...interesting. http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/aerospce/pics/bombs.htm Oh. My. God. I take it one like it got dropped at least once during WWII? The first time the Grand Slam bomb was used successfully was on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Gene Buckle wrote: Makes you wonder if there's any pictures of the hole that sucker made when it went off. :) Well, according to google: http://www.dambusters.org.uk/bielefeld.htm 100ft deep crater is fairly impressive. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Rick Ansell
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:19:52 +0100 (BST), Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Gene Buckle wrote: Makes you wonder if there's any pictures of the hole that sucker made when it went off. :) Well, according to google: http://www.dambusters.org.uk/bielefeld.htm 100ft deep

RE: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Jon Berndt
When Grand Slam was dropped the fuselage 'jumped' upwards quite radically. What's Grand Slam? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) Lancaster

2003-08-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:00:06 -0500, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When Grand Slam was dropped the fuselage 'jumped' upwards quite radically. What's Grand Slam? ..a WWII fly swat. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)